The answer is A... sort of. Two-thirds (34) of the state legislatures may apply to Congress to call a Convention of the States to propose amendments to the Constitution. Then, three-fourths (38) of the state legislatures must ratify those proposals before they actually become amendments to the Constitution.
The name that given is Muckrakers
The term was popularly coined during the development of early progressive era in the period of 1890s - 1920s.
Back then, the government and the establishments were known to be really corrupt and many Muckrakers started to do investigative journalism to find out the truth about their practice.
I feel that is a useful tool to the president, yes, at Thanksgiving every year at the White House, President Richard Nixon pardoned himself for the water gate scandal.
The correct answer is B.
The American Progress was painted in 1872 by John Gast and it provides an image of the Westward Expansion. It shows how progress was brought progressively to the savage and unknown Western lands. Actually the East is represented on the right side of the image as the area with bright blues skies, as a contraposition to the dark West. The woman in the middle is called 'Progress', and she carries a book which represents the intellectual developments. These developments came together with the innovative tecnical and farming mechanisms that the indigenous people who moved to the area had to put in practice in order to make a living in the new lands, and that allowed them to undertake agricultural activities profitably.